Tremulous

Abandoned! There has been no work on this game for quite some time or it was left in an unfinished state.

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Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the "Armoury". The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Stacked with few pro players teams makes gameplay interesting like pain in the ass. And you know, 80% of playing trem you are going to try to play in such unfair conditions. And no trem admin is going to help you because most of them are that pro players I've already mentioned. And don't you dare to say the teams are stacked or call an admit defeat vote if you don't want to be banned fo 14 days for grief votes. And the most interesting fact that you can't even register on there forum (I'm waiting for there second mail with password or so for few weeks), but even if I could - there is no sane project developer to help me: they didn't make a little game updaite for years but have promoted bunch of retard admins therefor.

PS. And why only wasn't I surprised to see this Why Trem will die on there official forum? =D

2000 players left. 3 players has left per every day(average amount for 1200 days). Thats what dobruyyk saw on that picture. dobruiyyk thinks that if such a bad tendency won't turn over a new better leaf Tremulous is going to pass away in 2000/3 = approximately 666 days \o.O/

Here is a quote from official donor of Tremulous (« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 12:49:52 PM »):
"Don't expect 1.2 anytime soon. While there are coders making small adjustments quite often, progress is very slow. Apparently it was decided that the majority of the sounds needed to be replaced with more liberal licensed ones. Now the current sounds in tremulous are by no means extraordinary, but lacking a 'sound guy' and the general slowness of this project, this is yet another very questionable decision.
The truth is that tremulous will probably be dead in a year or at most two: -4000 players over a period of 1200days. It's stuck in some kind of release fear, the current release is from 2006 and extremely buggy. You have to go through a lot of extra steps to get a decent (working) client. This is a major turnoff for new players as nobody wants to invest a lot of time just to get a game they don't even know running. At the same time consider this from a developer perspective. Do you want to make stuff for a game which has it's next release in 5+ years without any clear road map?"

As dobruiyyk has recently noticed, Tremulous is in dire need of some serious developers and system administrators with good IT related experience (for example, the current stupid team decided to ban dobruiyyk on the only survived as yet official server because dobruiyyk is "trolling cool computer burglar who definitely knows how to use Tor to play online games"). Oh, maybe dobruiyyk had been trolling a bit on the forum, but that was only because of the empty Tremulous servers : there was no stable online of continuous fans but tremulous "senior admins" have continued baning every newcomer for "noob" or "nub" playing though.

Sadly I never ever witnessed an update. It is the same game play and a hand full of maps like when I first played it a few years ago. No improvements whatsoever in graphics or game play. Although the game is brilliant, a little bit more variety would do it good. I do not see the difference between 1.1 and 1.2 beta.

@berserk9779:
Take a closer look at that "going closed source" news item. It is posted on April Fools' Day.